> To be more exact, 90% of the _code_ I write is mostly just different types of API glue
I assumed you were only talking about the actual code. It still seems really odd. Why is there so much unavoidable boilerplate?
I assumed you were only talking about the actual code. It still seems really odd. Why is there so much unavoidable boilerplate?
It has a specific amount of code I need to write just to add the basic boilerplate of receiving the data and returning a result from the endpoint before I can get to the meat of it.
IIRC there are no languages where I can just open an empty file and write "put: <business logic>" and it magically knows how to handle everything correctly.
If it doesn't, then I feel like even in the JavaScript world of 2015 you could write "app.put("/mypath", business_logic)" and that would do the trick, and that was a very immature language ecosystem.
> IIRC there are no languages where I can just open an empty file and write "put: <business logic>" and it magically knows how to handle everything correctly.
Are you sure it's done correctly? Take something like timestamps, or validations: It's easy to get those wrongs.